Caliban
"NAR. SIMMANCE read the scenes with Caliban, Stephano and Trineulo from "The Tempest" the other night with great gusto, arousing in the hearer all the acute uneasiness which that incredible play can occasion. Is the comedy funny? Why is it funny? Why is it, sometimes, anything but funny
even in intention? I remember a schoolmaster with a taste for the peculiar who gave us a list of various interpretations of the symbolism of Caliban. He was the Missing Link, he was the "newlyfounded colony of Virginia," he was "the untutored drama of Christopher Marlowe." Then one remembers a _ controversy in The Listener some years ago as to whether Shakespeare was or was not
a friend of the working classes. Could we suggest, as a contribution to this thorny problem, that Caliban symbolises the proletariat? But probably in the long run we all know what Caliban is and, as with Dean Swift’s Yahoos, prefer not to say.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 317, 20 July 1945, Page 17
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157Caliban New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 317, 20 July 1945, Page 17
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